Sitting, standing, or lying supine
Anterior to the patient.
Please sit down. May I touch your throat and under your chin? (or point to the area). Please hold your mouth open while I try to close it.
Guide the patient to sit down. With the patient relaxed and with permission, place your fingers of one hand on the infrahyoid muscles. Place the fingers of your other hand under the jaw. Ask the patient to hold while you try to close the jaw.
VH - Head and spine skeleton with the infrahyoid muscles and tendons
On the other side add suprahyoids, platysma, sternocleidomastoid, sternohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid, omohyyoid, longus colli and capitis, scalenes, sternocleidomastoid, muscles and tendons